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Article Title: Spotted Tail and the Treaty of 1868 Full Citation: Kingsley M Bray, “Spotted Tail and the Treaty of 1868,” Nebraska History 83 (2002): 19-35 URL of article: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH2002SpottedTail.pdf Date: 8/02/2011 Article Summary: Spotted Tail worked from 1866 on to create Brulé tribal consensus, gradually accepting the changes forced upon his people by government support for western settlement while doing all he could to protect their interests. Adaptation to reservation life was an unpopular and difficult process, but Spotted Tail understood that the Brulé band had no alternative.

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Names: Spotted Tail, Red Leaf, Swift Bear, Two Strike, Eli S Parker, Leon Palladay, Todd Randall, WS Hancock, Standing Elk, Walks Underground, MT Patrick, HB Denman, Pawnee Killer, Big Mouth, Whistler, Quick Bear, Dog Hawk, Iron Shell, John S Sanborn, Christopher C Augur, White Eyes, DeWitt C Poole, Blue Horse, Eugene A Carr Place Names: Fort Laramie, Wyoming; Fort McPherson, Kansas; North Platte, Nebraska; Whetstone Agency, South Dakota Keywords: Overland Trail; Wazhazhas; Bozeman Trail; “Big Bellies”: Spotted Tail, Swift Bear, Standing Elk, Walks Underground; Deciders; akicita (camp police); Beauvais & Lee trading post; tiospaye (kin group); Miwatani Society; Union Pacific Railroad, Pawnee scouts, Indian Peace Commission, Great Sioux Reservation, Spotted Tail, Red Leaf, Swift Bear, Two Strike, Eli S Parker, Leon Palladay, Todd Randall, WS Hancock, Standing Elk, Walks Underground, MT Patrick, HB Denman, Pawnee Killer, Big Mouth, Whistler, Quick Bear, Dog Hawk, Iron Shell, John S Sanborn, Christopher C Augur, White Eyes, DeWitt C Poole, Blue Horse, Eugene A Carr, Loafers, Orphans, White River, Smoky Hill River Photographs / Images: Spotted Tail, principal chief of the Upper Brulé Lakotas; inset list of signatories to the Treaty of Fort Laramie, June 27, 1866; Two Strike, of the militant Southern Brulé Miwatani Society; Mathewson T Patrick, Upper Platte Indian agent; Pawnee Killer, one of the leaders of the Oglala Lakotas; General William Tecumseh Sherman with a group of Indians; inset list of Brulé signatories to the Treaty of Fort Laramie, April 29, 1868; Swift Bear, who favored removal to a reservation near Fort Randall on the Missouri River; General Christopher C Augur, who ordered all Southern Lakotas to the reservation after they had raided American homesteads along the Saline and Solomon rivers; Little Wound, whose followers declared war in August 1868; Red Leaf, ranking Wazhazha band chief; Spotted Tail, who kept most of the Brulé tribe at peace while other Indians rebelled

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